Apr 7, 2022 | Environment and Climate, Innovation
Did you know that CLS was tracking satellite-connected objects before the invention of GPS? CLS and the French space agency CNES, with the Argos satellite system, in fact invented the IoT—the Internet of Things—in the 1980s. Since then, CLS, a subsidiary of CNES, has...
Mar 22, 2022 | Environment and Climate
The strength and frequency of extreme weather events has grown due to climate change: floods, cyclones, storms, typhoons, but also droughts are more and more devastating. So, it comes as no surprise that the theme chosen by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
Mar 17, 2022 | Environment and Climate
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the BKMG (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics) called on CLS to deploy an unprecedented marine meteorological system on the...
Mar 16, 2022 | Environment and Climate, Water Management
Falls run dry We all recall the terrible images released at the end of 2019, showing the Victoria Falls almost dry. Such images bear witness to the persistent drought in recent years in some areas, partly as a result of climate change and poor stewardship of one of...
Mar 16, 2022 | Environment and Climate, Forest Management, Land Management
“Silent forest, pleasant solitude, how I love to walk through your shadows oft ignored! In your dark paths, dreaming as I wander, I feel free of all worries. Dear to my heart! I think I glimpse the trees, the grasses, exhaling a sweet sadness: a wave murmuring softly,...
Feb 28, 2022 | Environment and Climate, Innovation
In a world where the changing environment and our impact is discussed, where forests and lands are burning, where global warming is raging, where pollution and the plundering of our natural resources happen every day, perhaps the innovations we need are those that...
